Ezekiel 20:19

19 I am the Lord your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

Ezekiel 20:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:19

I [am] the Lord your God
Not only that had made them and preserved them, but had chose them above all people to be his people; who had made a covenant with them, and had distinguished them by his favours from all others: walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
which he had given unto their fathers, and they had neglected and despised; those contained in the decalogue, and in the whole book of Deuteronomy, and elsewhere,

Ezekiel 20:19 In-Context

17 But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.

18 "Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don't follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.

19 I am the Lord your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

20 Keep My Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between Me and you, so you may know that I am the Lord your God.

21 "But the children rebelled against Me. They did not follow My statutes or carefully keep My ordinances-the person who does them will live by them. They also profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them and exhausting My anger against them in the wilderness.